PHP to generate HTML as loaded from client side

mgscom

Hello,
Let's see if I can explain the problem clearly without confusing you so I could get some help.

Our online store uses Yahoo store services. The product information is stored on Yahoo store database. Yahoo provides some special HTML tags to access those info at page download time by the client. Our HTML pages have the those tags and they will be converted to the actual HTML on the client's browswer with the product infomation pulled.

For example,
the special tag on server side HTML page:
<a href=></a>

Will be converted to the following on the client browser:
<a href=http://www.mystore.com/abc039.html><img border=0 width=115 height=80 src=http://store1.yimg.com/I/yhst-95419159917231_1880_3109645></a>

My PHP will need to generate/display html page on the client with the latter information, which was unknown to me when PHP script is run. Is it possible for PHP to simulate the effect of client downloading the html page from his browser. If so, the former information would be converted...

Hope someone could provide some pointers for me to pursue. Thanks.
Jason

wilku

Hmm... if i understand it right you'd only need to do this:

$content = file_get_contents("http://yourserver.com/your_script.php");

Your server would give you the same result in $content as it would give to the client browser. You must use http:// and the full address. Otherwise it will give you the script instead of generated content.
Notice however that this line cannot be inside your_script.php as it would create an endless loop.